{"id":26263,"date":"2025-04-30T02:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26263"},"modified":"2025-04-30T02:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:44:07","slug":"amal-clooney-could-be-barred-from-us-under-trump-sanctions-over-icc-case-against-netanyahu-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26263","title":{"rendered":"Amal Clooney could be barred from US under Trump sanctions over ICC case against Netanyahu: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amal Clooney could be barred from entering the United States \u2014 where she lives with her Oscar-winning husband George and their daughters \u2014 for her role in influencing the International Criminal Court to charge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant with\u00a0war crimes in Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The UK Foreign Office warned several senior barristers that they could be\u00a0slapped with sanctions by the Trump administration<\/a>\u00a0for their involvement in the controversial case that saw the ICC issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant in November,\u00a0the Financial Times reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump, 78, ordered ICC officials, employees and their immediate family members to be hit with financial penalties and visa restrictions after he sanctioned the ICC over the \u201cbaseless\u201d warrants in\u00a0an executive order signed in February.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Clooney, 47, played an instrumental role on the legal panel that recommended ICC charges for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan \u2014 who first pushed the court to issue arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant in May 2024 \u2014 is the only person from the high-profile case named in Trump\u2019s executive action.<\/p>\n

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If Clooney, an accomplished Lebanese British human rights lawyer who is a British citizen, is targeted next, the 47-year-old faces banishment from entering the country where she lives with George,\u00a0whom she married in September 2014<\/a>, and their 7-year-old twin daughters.<\/p>\n

The White House and reps for Clooney did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

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Trump signed an executive order in February targeting those involved in the decision to charge the Israeli prime minister.AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clooney played an\u00a0instrumental role<\/a>\u00a0in the decision to prosecute Netanyahu and Gallant after she was asked by the ICC last year to join a panel of international legal experts to evaluate evidence of suspected war crimes in Israel and Gaza.<\/p>\n

The panel determined unanimously that the ICC had jurisdiction over crimes committed in the course of Israel\u2019s war against Hamas and recommended that both Hamas and Israeli leaders be held accountable.<\/p>\n

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Amal Clooney is married to two-time Academy Award-winner George Clooney.Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The ICC levied arrest warrants in November against Netanyahu and Gallant, alleging there were \u201creasonable grounds\u201d to conclude the two men \u201cintentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable for their survival.\u201d<\/p>\n

The court also sought an arrest warrant against Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, who helped plan and lead the Oct. 7 massacre that left 1,200 dead in Israel, with 251 others kidnapped.<\/p>\n

Israel, however, confirmed it had\u00a0killed the terrorist<\/a>\u00a0in a targeted strike in July.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu and Gallant are subject to arrest in any of the 124 nations that have ratified the 1998 Rome Statute, including Austria, the UK and France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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